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Derpetologist
The world's foremost authority on the science of stupidity, Professor Emeritus at Derpskatonic University, Editor of the Journal of Pure and Theoretical Derp,
Chancellor of the Royal Derp Society, and Senior Fellow at The Dipshit Doodlebug Institute for Advanced Idiocy
I’ll plug one of my favorite books that uses nothing but cartoons to teach everyday grammar in Japanese.
It’s got lots of language you don’t learn from most textbooks.
Negotiations with Tekeshi’s mom?
About 60 years ago, VN era, I started saving cartoons from the Army times, Army oriented humor, I assembled a loose leaf binder of them. I’ll try to remember to bring it out for HH, the ex military guys, particularly army, may enjoy the nonsense we laughed at back in the old days.
How about PS Magazine?
I miss the old Connie and Bonnie. Siiigghhh.
At the time I was in a joint office and we didn’t get PS Mag.
Connie/Bonnie must have been after my time…
Oh yeah, now I remember Connie, I’d forgotten her name but not her other assets.
The green machine hasent changed much.
No it hasn’t! Looks the same.
https://ebay.io/m/kmPF2e
The big green wenie, my bad.
Fun, travel, and adventure.
6 years at fort Campbell not as bad as being say stuck at Ft Jackson (the armpit of the U.S.) but pretty close.
Ft Jackson sucks, but not like the suck of Ft Polk. That place makes Ft Irwin seem wonderful.
Ahh! Only got to visit for one rotation. Record setting heat and safety stand downs, but not for us in the field.
I have a picture of our platoon filing by a sign that said “Snake Area – Keep Out”.
And then afterwards the fine wooden barracks for transient units.
Polk sucks.
Some jackass took a crap in our water buffalo.
Being at Polk and playing like we were in the field for two weeks was way better than garrison at Campbell.
I wanted to open everyone’s veins at Campbell.
Fort Chaffee in July sucked but I’m glad I did a JRTC rotation there before it moved to Polk.
Only the military would claim you can find Bliss in Texas.
I did time at Polk (Operation Swift Strike, 90 days),
Chaffee,, (basic and 2nd 8, 4 months)
Bliss (Language school, 8 weeks)
Ft Hood, 3 1/2 years. A lot of folks didn’t like Hood but I retired there and stayed in Temple for 15 years ’til the heat finally wore me down. My kids still live near by.
POM is the place for language school. It was like a year and a half vacation compared to all the other places I went for training.
First half of the VN Language School was at Bragg, then onto Bliss. It was a short course for those going as advisors.
Not bad and a fun outlet to pick up. anti- Did you use ai drawing, tell it what you want, then edit the pics by specifying what works and telling it what to get rid of/ downplay?
I don’t get 1 and 2, 3 is good , 4 I get but it’s a meh, if I’m being honest.
3 is the best. I don’t get 4 either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think I reversed 4 into a joke, perhaps as intended. “This is a Wendy’s” is the joke that didn’t require a punchline, because Wendy’s sucks.
(I actually like Wendy’s, so YMMV. Spicy chicken and their chili. Was once ~once a week when at Walmart, fucking bacon cheeseburger with a fried egg for fucking $5?! Damn. And Carmel’s fancy so even fast food is good. *chefs kiss* )
3 is the best but I think I’ve seen the joke before.
Wendy’s is >> those other two. And yes, the spicy chicken.
Wendy’s went downhill after Dave died.
Before. Dave gave up control before he returned as a spokesman. Yellow Wendy’s was the best.
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s” is a meme.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sir-this-is-a-wendys
I didn’t realize, until I watched the French soçcer team on tv, that France is apparently a Sub-Sahara African nation.
The Scramble for Africa paid off, didn’t it.
You can blame the Dutch for that. Africa would still be a gigantic fever coast without the quinine from their cinchona plantations in the East Indies.
More amusingly, a lot of the tiny countries field teams where no player lives there, plays there, or was even born there.
I’m not much of a fan of Harling but, give the man credit, he’s a beast in front of goal.
I have not been either entirely because of his club that I hate, but watching him tonight, he’s a goofy goon.
PS the Brooklyn neighborhood I lived in for 16 years was largely Norwegian before all of them moved to LI and NJ and were replaced by Arabs and Chinese.
So every year I would watch the Norwegian parade pass by my house to the bemusement of all the vibrant newcomers.
I hope they brought lefske and lutefisk for everyone.
The Algerian troops in France in 1940 fought harder than the native Frenchies.
There’s a lot of Algerians buried at Verdun as well.
Don’t forget their contributions to the French defense at Dien Bien Phu.
Another thing wrong with Comic 1, Bobby and the old man aren’t looking at the robot. The old man may be looking downward and to the right at the robots right foot , but Bobby is definitely looking up and at something in front of him and the Robot is directly to his right.
I think that’s referencing the robot that kicked the kid in China.
OT: For the game nerds
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/reviews/steam-machine-beautiful-hardware-console-performance-at-a-price
Pass.
Since my last PC bricked itself I make do with a Mac and a Switch that I recently obtained. Meets all of my gaming needs minus one or two games I miss but there are so many others on the back burner.
FWIW, gaming on Amazon Luna has been good.
I can run it on my tv or my iPad.
Lemme know when they get to $800. Otherwise, I’m not terribly interested.
Right now even the Steam Deck is touching $800. The RAMpocalypse is killing pricing.
I think once we start getting into four figures, just build your own PC that lets you do everything a PC does. I’m not some big gamer so hell if I know, but even when I did game on the PC my thing was modding it. Which you can’t really do on your own with this.
And think how pissed you’ll be if you buy a game at some point and that thing can’t play it at peak performance. Console games are designed for a standard console experience (and still often broken). How long until games are coming out that the hardware of this won’t be able to handle it?
I guess you sell this as some sort of thing for newbs into PC gaming, but that’s a hefty price tag for those kinds of people. If you aren’t already into PC games are you going to really be able to justify something like this? Because a P
It’ll become more palpable I suspect with the next Playstation, but for now I just think it’s so niche and it’s still competing against the latest consoles while the top end version is nearly 3x what they cost or more.
Part of it is the huge and growing demands of AAA over “lesser” games.
It used to be everyone could play any game out there. Now it’s a matter of chasing the latest specs that add little or nothing to the actual enjoyment of a game. I’m not going to play along with that nonsense.
I get that, but it’s also another point against it because in a few years games are going to surpass this thing as it currently goes. You can’t upgrade this like you would a PC to extent it’s life.
It’s possible that if it’s a success that games are designed with it in mind to prevent that, but then you’re also holding back the game development to some extent.
I could also just be ignorant and not know what the fuck I’m talking about. I am just an asshole on the internet.
The target audience seems to be “serious” gamers who don’t already own a PC. A tiny bunch it would seem to me but yeah, WTF do I know.
I don’t chase. I trail. I play games that are years old. The games are less expensive and play on lower tier hardware.
Catching the last half of ‘Some Like It Hot’ on TV. Marilyn Monroe is being very reasonable while trying to seduce a gay-but- don’t-say-that dude on ‘his’ boat.
“It’s like smoking without inhaling” he says after she kisses him deeply. (Oh, she may have turned him, at least for the night?) I’m positive George McFly didn’t see this flick before he met Marty. I believe it’s highly regarded and I can see why. Very out-there comedy for the day. (I’m just seeing it seems she was sexually extorting him and did a very good job of that, as well. And the other dude in drag was proposed by another wealthy gentleman.)
“Why would a guy marry another guy?!”
“Security!”
I get the sense this film wouldn’t be allowed today. All the drag and sexifying to turn gay folk NOT gay to financially dupe them?!
Oh, well, I NEVER!!
Uh, they weren’t gay.
I’m not talking about Lemmon and Curtis as the girls. After reading on wiki, see the dude on the boat really was impotent because of the death of his previous lover. Not gay, but that seems the obvious ‘hidden’ connotation. Especially with his effete qualities. Don’t know why *now* wiki-woke folx would further praise the film for that. Strange. I really don’t think that was Lemmon or Curtis NOT in drag. I didn’t see the first hour+ of the flick so I’m not sure.
Now this may be news to the masses, but Monroe had a really nice rack. Like a full handshake, all there, but not jumbo-tron.
Uwe Boll has a new movie out.
Citizen Vigilante.
I’m sure it will put a smile on my face.
Um Gottes willen.
Will he fix the cable?
Don’t be fatuous, Double E.
I brought home a dynamic tire balancer from Marketplace today. So now I’m back to doing all of my own tire service, lol.
Nice.
Last thing I got off of marketplace before my ban was a newer machine. Beats my old atlas (coasts 1010 copy). I dont ballence my trailer tires and can’t justify the space a ball ever takes up. But for the price anymore it’s not a bad idea to do your own. Save $500 or more buying from online and doing the work every set.
My friend and I picked up a touchless tire machine at a Harbor Freight parking lot sale. It has worked great for smaller trailer tires up to the 35s on my truck.
My newer one is a modern style Coated machine, stand up bead breaker and the arm, sadly not the version that has the power down arm. It won’t handle the front tires on my backhoe or skidsteer.
The backhoe has a built-in bead breaker.
Coates
The backhoe breaks beads. A can’t get the dang things back on though! Even with 16.5s they are stiff!
Yeah, I took the pneumatic tire on the 8k forklift to Les Schwab, lol.
I dread the day I have to take my loader in. One of the fronts has a bead leak. It loses about 10psi a month.
Going to be $$$$
My brain automatically translated all of those to Coates.
This reads like a pneumatic machine talking to his doctor about erectile difficulties and dysfunction.
Evan.
The rim clamp cylinder was bad when I bought it, pneumatic. Bought the parts to fix it (from Hawaii of all places) and now the bead breaker cylinder is bad. Always maintenance when you buy used stuff.
More expensive maintenance when you buy new.
And when you get a load on the loader (technically icky a forklift) the bead leak is slight but audible. But mostly they are round, plump, black and full of air.
Yes, a nice, tight rim clamp cylinder helps the big thing that goes up go up, stay straight, firm. Never lose pressure. Covered by insurance.
*Erector foreman sagely nods*
Evan, real men change the tire on the rim.
Threedoor, when you have spare time around Spokane area, I can show you what all the doodads on a Bridgeport do.
Maybe hiking halfway up an active volcano isn’t a good idea.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/world-news/terrified-tourists-scramble-for-cover-as-theyre-pelted-with-lava-during-volcano-hike/
“Holy Fuck” indeed. At least they remembered to take some pictures of the lava rain.
Retards with money.
“Explosive eruptions every 15-20 minutes? Sure, I’ll take my chances that I won’t win a Darwin Award.” said no Glib ever.
I’ve done some dumb stuff but only that which would have killed me by my own direct action or inaction.
““Explosive eruptions every 15-20 minutes? Sure, I’ll take my chances that I won’t win a Darwin Award.””
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That’s what she said?
When a child in the 1960’s I got to hike up to the lip of both Vesuvius and Etna. Both were quiescent then. Dad was stationed in Naples when Vesuvius last burped in 1944. I also got to visit the sites of Pompei and Herculaneum. Very cool to an eight-year-old to see the exhumed dwellings. I still have some zeolite crystals I picked up that were in the ash.
https://x.com/royalmail/status/2069036565301485961
Whoa…
Actual quote from The Guardian USA’s Facebook:
Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency (on an article on how the white working class knows America’s system is failing, but doesn’t care).
Do you want to know more?
I think that’s enough.
My wife found this swinging pad.
Where it’s at it’s probably worth it if you could subdivide it.
Eat your heart out Pie.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/11470-N-Church-Rd-Rathdrum-ID-83858/113113829_zpid/
Looks like 3-4 acre subdivision to the north.
Some developer is going to make a killing on this place.
I drove by there to get my balancer. Rathdrum prairie is so sad now. In ’89 they were complaining about smoke from burning the grass seed fields. Well, there are no grass field fires now.
“Incel content”. He wasent wrong about lady cops. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/livestory/montreal-shots-fired-officer-injured-emergency-alert-9.7244582
I hate how cops and the media call citizens civilians. Bitch. Every cop outside of the MPs are civilians.
Here we have a female cop smoking a citizen at point blank range with a double tap. Poor guy was running to her for help away from the gunman. https://funker530.com/video/at-least-3-dead-in-montreal-shooting-caught-on-video
Shut up citizen and accept your police betters.
If only the chick had a bolty instead of the cell phone.
Seem to be a lot of foreign born persons occupying judgeships nowadays. Im sure that is healthy.
Am I the only one who thinks foreign born persons should not hold positions of authority in a country?
BUT WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS!
Melting pot…lie…destruction of culture….shut up and accept it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7cn5bS8WM&list=RDfKVL1REVYPg&index=2
This girl has enthralled me.
In other news I have acquired a banjo. And what looks like enough parts to make four more. The most complete parts banjo in the pile is a late 20s Melody King Tenor. It’s got some pretty pieces. Not as nice as this one is. https://www.banjohangout.org/archive/405111
Judge in DC (Obama appointee) just blocked the soda ban on SNAP items. Argument is that congress defined what is food very loosely and did not grant Department of Agriculture the power to ban items. Which seems to be a correct application of the law in this instance.
I’m sure if I want through the judge’s history of rulings (she just happened to handle a few high profile cases against Trump associates in the past like Manafort) that there’d be no inconsistencies whatsoever.
But yes seems like the correct ruling based on the law. With every comment section in the world completely ignoring the actual law and instead arguing over whether soda should or shouldn’t be banned. Because people don’t care about why a decision is made; just the results.
How about high fructose corn syrup being judged as not food?
Everything is a Rorschach test.
Good morning. I do not have a tire machine. I feel inadequate.
😟⛈️💨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQrFENVdmBg
🎶🎶
I thought you were going to say you feel tired.
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., and homey!
I don’t have a tire machine either.
I read that as “I don’t have a time machine either”.
That, too, would be true, dammit. 😒
You can have my time machine. Unfortunately it doesn’t transport you through space.
Hmmmm…. It might be interesting to see what my Tranquility Base was like, say, 200 years ago… 🤔
RoaT’s time machine moves you forward only at a rate of one second per second.
It might also be confused with a cardboard box.
Ninja Cat would like the box.
My old one is for sale.
It does complimentary dental work if you use it wrong enough. https://lewiston.craigslist.org/tls/d/lewiston-atlas-tire-changer/7912253420.html
Government-sector unions in action
“About” is doing a lot of work there.
suh fam
what’s goody
/hey from Atlantic City
Do not pass Go; do not collect $200.
You’re back in my hometown area. Of course now I’m 2.5 hours north.
https://www.whitehousesubshop.net/
Worth it.
One of the fun underreported stories is black South Africans hating on “immigrants” from other black African countries.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/malawians-repatriated-south-africa-amid-090004037.html
Morning, Glibs.
I hate humans.
RJ is relieved.
I don’t hate collectively. I do have anger towards certain individuals, people whose last name rhymes with Boros for example.
What did this guy do to you?
What have the Polos done besides write about Mongol China?
Harass people in swimming pools?
“What have the Polos done besides write about Mongol China?”
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My closet certainly suggests that they will never iron themselves out.
Good morning, U!
Dare I ask if you’d make an exception for us? (And what’s provoking this feeling right now?)
I’d rather not plaster the answer over the internet. I can update you directly, but it’s not something for public discussion.
If you want to at your convenience.
If you’d like to know 4 years on why we have no fab in upstate New York from the Pork and Chips Act of 2022 look no further.
Once complete, Micron’s project will consume more power than the entire state of New Hampshire. That means major transmission upgrades will be required. Because New York is forcing natural gas power plants to shut down, energy regulators must ensure Micron won’t strain the grid.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chuck-schumer-micron-chip-shortage-new-york-environment-c090b7e6?st=XsiL7d&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That is near me. It is all of the usual anti-business regulation AND it doesn’t help that the locals are as dead-set against building that project as they are against data centers and energy projects.
They are all about bitching about “affordability” though.
It’s going to be a big tech selloff this AM. Enjoy!
Also Greenspan Put = Moral Hazard.
Can the Market Still Bet on the ‘Greenspan Put’?
The return of inflation after the pandemic has left a question mark over whether the Put still exists—and plenty of debate about whether it is a good thing
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/can-the-market-still-bet-on-the-greenspan-put-f3e19238?st=iWmPow&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
We certainly gained a lot from our Middle East kinetic military action.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/iran-mou-u-s-israel-jd-vance-lebanon-nuclear-weapons-3d3a90aa?st=v6wqBK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink